VONV News and Press, Vanguard Russell 1000 Value Index Fund From 01/20/23

Summary Not all value strategies are created equal, and some stocks are cheap for a reason. Over the last 25 years, from 1997 to 2022, the MSCI USA Quality Index delivered an 8.6% annual return. In our view, falling earnings estimates, slowing GDP growth and tighter monetary policy ...

Summary 2023 may be an inflection point for the equity markets. When we look at the valuations around the globe at the region or country level, everything looks really cheap. We believe the markets will stay volatile in 2023. By Melda Mergen, CFA, CAIA, Global Head of Eq...

Summary Amid the worst rout for US stocks in more than a decade, Value stocks showed impressive staying power, finishing in 2022 with far smaller losses than their Growth counterparts and the US market overall. Though Value’s outperformance versus Growth spanned most industries i...

Summary US Large Cap stocks are still in a short-term downtrend but the long-term uptrend is intact. International Large Cap stocks are in a short-term uptrend versus US Large Cap. The trend has been driven by the falling dollar. US Large Cap value is in a short-term uptrend versus ...

Summary Avoiding growth last year paid enormous dividends, but I didn’t predict that growth stocks would fall in 2022, just that I couldn’t own them and fulfill our fiduciary duty. Near-term stock market performance is negatively correlated with economic growth. Commod...

Summary Global equities closed out their worst year since the 2008 financial crisis as central banks launched increasingly aggressive efforts to bring rampant inflation under control. Much of the US’s underperformance versus its peers is an outgrowth of its much larger exposure t...

Summary For 40 years, steadily declining inflation and interest rates buoyed equity returns. That changed abruptly last year. Investors must now adjust expectations to a new macroeconomic and market landscape that will require a fresh mindset to reach long-term goals. By...

Summary Microsoft and Amazon are now part of the S&P 500 Value Index according to the newly constructed Style Indexes. Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and Chevron are now considered top growth stocks. These are just a few significant changes that impact the SPDR S&P 500 Value ETF. Genera...

Summary 2022 was the first year since 2016 that value investing thoroughly trounced growth investing. Growth had a nice spurt off the lows in June and October ’22 but the higher 10-year Treasury yield is acting like a wet blanket for growth stocks. I continue to think that no...

Summary Inflation continues to moderate, not only here, but also in Europe. Despite the negative economic reports and the reaction to the Fed rate hike, the US Dollar barely budged for the week. Value yet again outperformed Growth in the last week, this time by a spread of almost 1%...